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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

[FIX] VLC is unable to open the MRL (smb://)

When I tried to open remote video files with VLC via a Samba share I got this error message:

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://...'

It seems that this problem is related to credentials and can be fixed by entering the credentials for the Samba share in the VLC preferences (Tools > Preferences > Input / Codecs > Access Modules > SMB Input):

Note: I only experienced this problem when accessing remote files with PCManFM.

that's not a solution. what if you have different shares on different locations, names and password. you've to change this setting everytime you want to play a file from a different share then before. solution in my eyes was if we can somehow give vla player permission to play the file. like kaffeine, movieplayer and the most other linux mediaplayers.